Julieanne Kost has posted 18 Steps to effective creative thinking. The excerpt is from her book called Window Seat.

If you are feeling a bit uncreative then by all means read Julieannes advice by [ clicking here ]

From the article:

2. Listen to what your life is trying to tell you.

9. Take 15 minutes for yourself every day.

14. Keep a Journal

12. Take up an interest in something you know nothing about

This is a must read!

[ Thanks for Creativepro.com ]

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Thanks to Photoshop, personal hygiene is a thing of the past! Who needs dentist appointments? Just fire up Adobe Photoshop and follow this sample tutorial from the “Photoshop Retouching Cookbook”.

Before and After:

[ Click here to view the sample tutorial ]

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PhotoshopNerds.com has posted a tutorial on how to create realistic clouds. I decided to post this here because the final result of this tutorial looks exceptionally good.

Before:

After:

[ Click here to view the Clouds Tutorial ]

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This is a simple tutorial that I thought could be useful sometimes. This teaches how to create Fairy dust. It looks slightly similar to Tinker Bells Fairy Dust.

This is the effect that can be achieved (click to enlarge) :

[ Learn how to do it by clicking here ]

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I enjoyed this tutorial simply because I hadn’t seen anything similar to this in a while. This tutorial teaches how to create a realistic looking shadow using Photoshop. The final result is great so I decided to post it here.

Before:

After:

The result looks very authentic.

[ Check out the tutorial by clicking here ]

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